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GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g: Pheditor: Authentication Bypass in Forced Password-Change Flow via Unverified Current Password

July 24, 2026

The forced password-change flow, triggered when the stored password is still the default (admin), does not verify that the password submitted by the client actually matches the current password. Any non-empty value in pheditor_password is enough to reach the password-change form, and submitting pheditor_new_password / pheditor_confirm_password in the same request is enough to set an arbitrary new password and obtain an authenticated session — without ever proving knowledge of the current password.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g
  • github.com/pheditor/pheditor/commit/0978bcda644832b67357340e2f271e32d86fdf86
  • github.com/pheditor/pheditor/releases/tag/2.0.8
  • github.com/pheditor/pheditor/security/advisories/GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.0.8

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.8 or above.

Impact 10 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1392: Use of Default Credentials

Source file

packagist/pheditor/pheditor/GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g.yml

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